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NewsLaing plans £95m rights issue
Money will be used to support Laing’s activities in the PFI/PPP sector.
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DLR extension to Woolwich Arsenal reaches financial close
AMEC will extend DLR from City Airport to Woolwich Arsenal in £240m PPP joint venture
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Vanda Murray joins Carillion
Ultraframe director appointed non-executive director of Carillion.
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NewsJarvis secures Deutsche Bank loan
£31.3m loan will allow Jarvis to operate until a debt for equity swap is secured in August.
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Paddington Hospital plans abandoned
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust’s refusal to approve business case puts plans for £800m hospital in jeopardy.
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Orostream wins monster job at Loch Ness
Firm has been appointed main contractor on £4.5m project to convert Fort Augustus Abbey into luxury apartments.
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NewsMultiplex admits big loss at Wembley
Australian contractor predicts it will lose £45m on Wembley but says stadium will be ready for 2006 FA Cup FInal.
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NewsAfter 99 years, Ritz finally buys house next door
The Ritz hotel in central London is set for expansion after buying one of the capital’s most famous townhouses next door.
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A retail tale
Sainsbury’s wished to expand one of their stores. The local planning authority approved the necessary application but the secretary of state called it in. His inspector, following a full inquiry, supported the proposal. However, after considering the inspector’s report and obtaining supplementary information, the secretary of state decided that planning ...
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NewsWembley subcontractor hits back at malicious rumours'
Electrical company Phoenix says it knows the source of some of the false claims and may take action.
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Clients and consultants go to war over project liability
Gulf between two has been exposed by publication of contract drawn up by the British Property Federation .
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NewsBRE launches innovation park to showcase MMC
A new centre of excellence for Housing has been opened by BRE at its Watford campus.
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Seminars tackle barriers to MMC
Leading experts from the Barker 33 Steering Group set up by the government to examining barriers to modern methods of construction will discuss some of their latest findings in a series of seminars at OFFSITE 2005.
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Innovative Housing team will promote MMC
BRE has established an Innovative Housing team that will provide a range of services relating to modern methods of construction.
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FeaturesThe £60,000 challenge
It is possible to build well-designed homes for this amount, says English Partnerships, and it’s running a competition to prove it. EP’s corporate strategy director, Trevor Beattie, explains why
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Features20:20 vision
A lack of standards has been holding back take-up of modern construction methods. The Loss Prevention Standard for Innovative Dwellings – LPS2020 – should change all that
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Showpieces
Full scale exhibits of MMC building systems will be showcased at OFFSITE2005 including three demonstration homes in BRE’s new Innovation Park
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Smart thinking
Faced with a target of building 89,000 new homes by 2021, Cambridgeshire has set up the SmartLIFE project to learn how innovative construction methods can make up the shortfall
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FeaturesPods and monsters
A medical research centre where scientists are banished to the basement and life-or-death matters are discussed beneath giant deep-sea creatures, orange bubble clusters and alien spacecraft … we visits Will Alsop’s most flamboyant, and contradictory, offering yet.